Year: 2012

Introduction Leveraging SMS messaging in a cloud context is a powerful capability. There are a wide variety of applications that can be built upon the techniques I illustrate. Imagine that you have a cloud service that responds to SMS messages. Here are some examples: Imagine you are presenting at a conference and you want to…

Introduction I am in complete awe on how this technology is resonating with today’s developers. If I invite developers for an evening event, Big Data is always a sellout. This particular post is about getting everyone up to speed about what Hadoop is at a high level. Big data is a technology that manages voluminous…

What this post is about This post is dedicated to understanding how to leverage Windows Azure Storage for your applications. Windows Azure currently has over 4 trillion objects stored Today, the storage service processes an average of 270,000 requests per second, and reaches peaks of 880,000 requests per second. By the time you read this,…

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